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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:33:00

A Spanish-Colonial picture palace anchors Portland's Alberta Arts District. The Alberta Rose Theatre at 3000 NE Alberta Street opened on 6 May 1926 as the Alameda Theatre - a 600-seat atmospheric cinema by architect Walter E. Kelley for the Seltzer siblings' local theatre chain, its auditorium styled as a Spanish-Colonial courtyard under a Mediterranean tile roof, with a ten-piece orchestra playing the opening night and a Wurlitzer organ installed from the Highway Theatre in 1928. The movie era...